This Moment Contains Infinity (after the dregs are gone)

[Guest guest]

"Buddha said, "Why is it that people fight over this experience of the

truth?" Truth is one. So to experience the truth is not important. The

important point is how we digest the experience of the truth in our life.

Emptiness is that the truth must be perfectly digested in our life. Truth

is something always sustaining our life, giving religious security to us.

This is the truth. If so, where is the truth? It is you. But, we practice

not to leave the dregs of truth in our lives. This is pretty hard.

 

There is a Zen story that is a very good example of this. A monk went to

see a Zen teacher and said, "I am here without carrying anything at all."

The teacher said, "Put it down." The monk said, "If I am here without

carrying anything at all, how can I put it down?" Do you understahd this? "I

am here without carrying anything at all" is already something that he

carries (Along with all other endless strategies and stories to reach this

seemingly distant Truth or God or Grace or whatever - J)

 

But the monk did not understand, so he got angry. Finally the teacher said,

"Please take it back to your home." This is wonderful but is is also very

delicate. It is really a sickness but we don't realize that sickness; it is

a very delicate sickness. We have this sickness always, it is called having

the dregs. How can we completely leave these dregs? We don't believe we

have it (especialy lurking in what we call our sincere efforts in spiritual

study - J) because our stubbornness, our ego, always wants to get something

in our hands. If we have dregs we feel good because they make sense. We

are always shaking the little bit of dregs at the bottom of the bottle to

find out how much benefit we get from spiritual practice and then we want to

practice more."

 

Whatever it is, just take it off. And then, what is left?

 

Can we thoroughly learn the naked nature of a human being? If we try to do

it we are always looking at ourselves in our own territory. It is sort of

like playing hide and seek or putting knowledge into a hole. We feel good

but on the other hand we find another hole. Always we do this. We take out

old knowledge and put in new knowledge constantly. This is human life. it

is fun. But it makes us exhausted and we cannot play hide-and-seek with

ourselves. Then - we must throw away the universe.

 

But, can we stand up in "Here I am, " in the completely naked nature of a

human being? It is very difficult. Very naturally we want to have something

outside of ourselves, scriptures, what the Buddha says, and so on. But

strictly speaking, there is completly nothing. When there is completely

nothing, how can we live? There is nothing here in human nature, even

slightly, to leave any kind of dregs. We have to live that way.

 

Joyce

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> The Self is nothing but YOU, even in the common sense of the

> term. YOU are always present. It's YOUR mind or YOUR intellect or YOUR ego

> or YOUR sense, which works. What the above statement does not mean is that

> since the Self is beyond the mind and senses, it's beyond you. It only means

> that since YOU ARE IT, and the senses and the mind exist only in relation to

> YOU, YOU are beyond them. YOU presuppose them. The YOU is nothing but you

> even now. So don't try to use the mind and the intellect to know yourself.

> Just be. (It may sound simple , but just try it and you'll find how hard it

> is to be YOURSELF!)

> _______

> Very beautifully put! But how can one "try" to just be? Trying

> indicates "doing". Being is always Prior to all doing. So Being must be

> found permeating "all doing and trying" and also independent of them.

> Spiritual effort itself is due to Grace. God Remembrance is due to Grace.

> The Absolute Surrender is due to Grace and it is this Moment of Truth that

> contains Infinity. It puts an end to all trying and doing. Here Being shines

> forth in all nakedness and dominates everywhere. Here, the Self Sees It Self

> as the Self as there is Nothing else to See but the Self.

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> Love to all

> Harsha

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> All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

> perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside

> back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

> the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

> Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is

> Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality

> of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge,

> spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to

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